Abortion

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many abortions were notified as being carried out in England in each year since 2000 on women whose normal place of residence was India, broken down by (a) age of the woman, (b) gestation of the pregnancy and (c) grounds for the abortion.

Earl Howe: Information on abortions notified as being carried out in England in each year since 2000 on women whose normal place of residence was India can be found in the following table. Numbers less than five have been suppressed in line with Office for National Statistics guidance on disclosure. This also means that the data cannot be broken down by age, grounds and gestation.
	
		
			 Abortions in England and Wales to women resident in India 2000-10 
			 Year Number 
			 2000 6 
			 2001 .. 
			 2002 .. 
			 2003 .. 
			 2004 6 
			 2005 8 
			 2006 .. 
			 2007 .. 
			 2008 .. 
			 2009 .. 
			 2010 .. 
		
	
	Notes:
	.. suppressed value less than 5 (between 0 and 4)

Armed Forces: Aircraft

Lord West of Spithead: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many RAF Tornado GR4 aircraft are fully configured for operations in (a) Afghanistan, and (b) Libya.

Lord Astor of Hever: From the current Tornado GR4 fleet, 82 meet the theatre entry standard for operations over Libya and, of these, 32 meet the higher theatre entry standard for Afghanistan.

Armed Forces: Aircraft

Lord West of Spithead: To ask Her Majesty's Government how much additional funding has been provided for the RAF Tornado GR4 force since United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.

Lord Astor of Hever: As the Chancellor of the Exchequer has made clear, the additional costs of operations in Libya will be fully met from the reserve. This will include the additional operational costs of the Tornado GR4 force. These costs are still being collated and no request for funds from the reserve has been made to date.

Aviation: Air Quality

The Countess of Mar: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have given consideration to requiring United Kingdom carriers to fit the existing fleet of commercial aircraft with filtered bleed air or to use atmospheric air instead of bleed air; and, if not, why not.

Earl Attlee: Consideration of such matters is the responsibility of the European Aviation Safety Agency rather than the UK Civil Aviation Authority.

Care Services: Inspection

Lord Campbell-Savours: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many persons employed and carried out investigations of care facilities on behalf of (a) the National Care Standards Commission, (b) the Commission for Social Care Inspection, and (c) the Care Quality Commission, in each year since 2002.

Earl Howe: The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has provided the following information.
	The CQC has advised that it does not hold any data relating to employee numbers at the National Care Standards Commission, which was abolished on 31 March 2004. The CQC has also advised that it does not hold any data on employee numbers at the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) from 1 April 2004 and 30 March 2007 because the CQC introduced new HR systems in April 2009 and is unable to provide a break down of resources from the predecessor bodies prior to 2007.
	CQC and CSCI filled frontline posts 1
	
		
			 Organisation Date Number of filled frontline posts 
			 CSCI 31-Mar-07 1,1502 
			 CSCI 01-Apr-07 871 
			 CSCI 31-Mar-09 858 
			 CQC 01-Apr-09 8583 
			 CQC 01-Apr-10 8784 
			 CQC 01-Apr-11 807 
		
	
	While there was a wider recruitment freeze in the public sector, it was agreed that the CQC inspectors play a business critical role investigating first hand the care received by people across the country. The department, therefore, approved the recruitment of 75 inspectors in October 2010. Furthermore, since February, the department has relaxed the recruitment controls for the CQC, and the hiring of inspectors is now the direct responsibility of the CQC. The CQC is currently in the process of recruiting additional inspectors.
	Notes:
	1 Data available from 31 March 2007 only.
	2As at 1 April 2007 279 frontline staff moved to OFSTED with the transfer of responsibility for the inspection of children's services.
	3 For the 1st year of operation of CQC, only those frontline staff transferred from CSCI were engaged in adult social care inspection. This figure is therefore only staff engaged in adult social care inspection. It is made up of 750 inspectors and 108 local area managers who were engaged in some inspection activity.
	4 In April 2010, frontline staff moved to mixed portfolio of inspection. This figure includes inspectors working across health and adult social care. It does not include local area managers and therefore data are not directly comparable.
	Data from 31 March 2007 to 1 April 2010 inclusive includes people working on annual performance assessment.

Care Services: Inspection

Lord Campbell-Savours: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the submission of annual quality assurance assessments by Castlebeck care and hospital facilities have breached guidance issued by the inspection authorities.

Earl Howe: Castlebeck is a provider of both care homes and independent hospitals. Before the new registration system under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 was implemented on 1 October 2010, these providers were subject to different regulations and requirements. Annual quality assurance assessments (AQAAs) were a requirement of care homes under the Care Standards Act 2000.
	The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has advised that Castlebeck returned an AQAA a day late in October 2009. This was the only occasion the CQC is aware of where Castlebeck breached the guidance on producing an AQAA. The CQC decided that taking action against the provider would be disproportionate in this instance.
	Castlebeck hospital facilities were not required to submit AQAAs. Independent hospitals were required to complete an annual self-assessment. A search to establish whether Castlebeck breached guidance on submitting annual self-assessments for its hospital facilities would incur disproportionate cost.

Care Services: Inspection

Lord Campbell-Savours: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether all Southern Cross and Castlebeck care and hospital facilities have been subject to the minimum of two unannounced inspections per year set out in Inspecting for better lives.

Earl Howe: Inspecting for Better Lives was a Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) methodology, which was used to carry out its regulatory work.
	The requirement to undertake a minimum of two inspections per year stopped on 1 April 2006, when new regulations under the Care Standards Act 2000 came into force. These regulations required:
	a care home, a domiciliary care agency, a nurses' agency or an adult placement scheme to be inspected a minimum of once in every three year period; and an independent hospital to be inspected a minimum of once in every five-year period.
	Whilst minimum inspection frequencies were set in regulations until the new registration system under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 was brought in, the Care Quality Commission (and its predecessors CSCI and the Healthcare Commission ) took a risk-based approach, carrying out more frequent inspections of poor services or where concerns identified possible risks.

Care Services: Winterbourne View

Lord Campbell-Savours: To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of visits to Winterbourne Hospital for the purpose of inspection were unannounced visits.

Earl Howe: The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has provided the following information.
	Winterbourne View was registered on 14 December 2006. Three inspections were carried out between registration and May 2011. These took place on 1 December 2008, 24 March 2009 and 15 December 2009. Reports of these inspections are available on the CQC website. The first two of these inspections were unannounced; the inspection on 15 December 2009 was announced.
	Since the CQC was alerted to the abuse uncovered by "Panorama", it has acted quickly to safeguard the patients at Winterbourne View. The CQC has undertaken a responsive review into the service, including an unannounced visit to Winterbourne View. The CQC has worked with the provider, commissioners and other agencies involved to ensure the safety of residents. The CQC will be publishing a report on its findings in due course and taking appropriate action in relation to the service. In addition, the CQC is undertaking a review of all other Castlebeck facilities in England. Reports on these will also be published in due course.

Care Services: Winterbourne View

Lord Campbell-Savours: To ask Her Majesty's Government on how many occasions and on what dates concerns over the treatment of elderly persons at Winterbourne Hospital were reported to (a) the Commission for Social Care Inspection, (b) the Care Quality Commission and (c) the Local Government Ombudsman.

Earl Howe: The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has provided the following information.
	Winterbourne View is registered as an assessment and treatment centre for people mainly with learning difficulties and mental health problems between the ages of 18-65. It has never been registered to provide services to elderly persons and the CQC is not aware that any elderly patients have ever been residents there.
	The CQC is currently undertaking a review of all services run by this provider which includes all notifications and complaints received in relation to Winterbourne View since 2006. This will include its registration with the predecessor body the Healthcare Commission. It was not previously regulated by the Commission for Social Care Inspection.

Cornwall: Stannary Law

Lord Laird: To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the role of the county courts in Cornwall in administering stannary law.

Lord McNally: The Jurisdiction of the Stannary Courts was transferred to the county courts of Cornwall in consequence of the Stannaries Court (Abolition) Act 1896. If an issue of stannary law was raised in a claim or other application in one of those courts it would be for that court to determine the issue.

Embryology

Lord Winston: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many NHS cycles of in vitro fertilisation were commissioned in private hospitals in 2009 and 2010; and what was the average cost per cycle.

Earl Howe: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that it requests that clinics reporting in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatments into the HFEA Register indicate whether the treatment is funded by the National Health Service. However, the HFEA Register does not contain information about the ownership or organisational set up (NHS or private) of the clinic itself.
	The following numbers are based on the number of cycles reported in the years 2009 and 2010 in clinics that described themselves as either Private or NHS/Private Partnership in their latest licence application. Clinics only have to apply for a licence at intervals of up to four years, so in some cases, this information might not be up to date. The analysis was run on 20 June 2011 and numbers can change subsequently when centres submit delayed treatment forms.
	
		
			 Clinic status as described in licence application form IVF cycles in 2009 where NHS funding was reported IVF cycles in 2010 where NHS funding was reported 
			 NHS/Private Partnership 5,167 6,347 
			 Private 3,044 2,911 
			 Total 8,211 9,258 
		
	
	The HFEA has no statutory powers to regulate or collect information on the cost of fertility treatments; therefore, this information is not available.

Ethiopia

Lord Chidgey: To ask Her Majesty's Government what work they are undertaking in Ethiopia to assist the Government in providing democratic oversight and modernisation of Ethiopia's Armed Forces; what is the cost of this work; how it is being delivered; and what plans there are for future work in this area.

Lord Astor of Hever: The Ministry of Defence's engagement with the Ethiopian Armed Forces is principally through the defence attaché in Addis Ababa. Assistance is provided to projects for security sector reform and in support of capabilities to conduct peace support operations, at a cost of about £1 million in the last financial year. The Department for International Development also supports an MSc in Security Sector Management for senior Ethiopian officials and others from the region, delivered in Addis Ababa by Cranfield University.

Exports

Lord Hunt of Chesterton: To ask Her Majesty's Government how the Cabinet Office intends to develop exports with competitive technological and commercial capabilities.
	To ask Her Majesty's Government how the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills intends to develop exports with competitive technological and commercial capabilities.
	To ask Her Majesty's Government how the Department for Culture, Media and Sport intends to develop exports with competitive technological and commercial capabilities.
	To ask Her Majesty's Government how the Ministry of Defence intends to develop exports with competitive technological and commercial capabilities.
	To ask Her Majesty's Government how the Department of Energy and Climate Change intends to develop exports with competitive technological and commercial capabilities.
	To ask Her Majesty's Government how the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs intends to develop exports with competitive technological and commercial capabilities.
	To ask Her Majesty's Government how the Department for Work and Pensions intends to develop exports with competitive technological and commercial capabilities.

Baroness Wilcox: The information requested covers a large number of government departments and is being collated. I will write to the noble Lord as soon as possible and will place a copy of the letter in the Library of the House.

Exports

Lord Hunt of Chesterton: To ask Her Majesty's Government how the Northern Ireland Office intends to develop exports with competitive technological and commercial capabilities.

Lord Shutt of Greetland: These are matters for the Northern Ireland Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, and the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, but my right honourable friends the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and the Minister of State stand ready to offer what assistance they can to ministerial colleagues in both administrations.

Gaza

Baroness Tonge: To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reported deaths in the Gaza strip detention centre run by the Internal Security Agency; and what representations they will make to the government of national unity. regarding the human rights of detainees in Gaza.

Lord Howell of Guildford: We are aware of the case of a 52 year-old man who died while in Hamas' custody on 19 April 2011. We are also aware of another case of a man who is in a critical condition in hospital after being interrogated.
	As we have done consistently in the past, we will continue to raise human rights concerns with the Palestinian Authority.

Government Departments: Research and Data

Lord Kennedy of Southwark: To ask Her Majesty's Government what research and data collection the Department for Communities and Local Government has (a) initiated, (b) terminated, and (c) amended since 12 May 2010.

Baroness Hanham: I refer the noble Lord to the Answer I gave to the honourable Member for Vale of Clwyd (Chris Ruane) on 10 June (Official Report, col. 532-33W).

Government Departments: Scientific Advisers

Lord Willis of Knaresborough: To ask Her Majesty's Government who is the Departmental Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; and (a) when they were appointed and for how long, (b) what is their academic or experience background, (c) what is their civil service rank, (d) whether their post is full-time or part-time, and what other work commitments they have, and (e) on how many occasions during the past year they have had meetings with the Secretary of State or the Minister to whom they have direct responsibility.

Baroness Rawlings: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport currently does not have a Chief Scientific Advisor (CSA) in post and is considering options to fill this role.

Government Departments: Scientific Advisers

Lord Willis of Knaresborough: To ask Her Majesty's Government who is the Departmental Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Education; and (a) when they were appointed and for how long, (b) what is their academic or experience background, (c) what is their civil service rank, (d) whether their post is full-time or part-time, and what other work commitments they have, and (e) on how many occasions during the past year they have had meetings with the Secretary of State for Education or the Minister to whom they have direct responsibility.

Lord Hill of Oareford: Carole Willis is the Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Education.
	(a) She was appointed in August 2008 on a permanent contract.(b) Carole's background is in economics, and she has experience in other government departments, including DWP, as well as from the private sector.(c) Carole's Civil Service grade is SCS2.(d) Her post is a full-time post as Director of Research and Analysis, which includes the role of Chief Scientific Adviser.(e) Carole has met with the Secretary of State for Education, and other Ministers for the Department for Education, on 16 occasions in the past year.

Government Departments: Scientific Advisers

Lord Willis of Knaresborough: To ask Her Majesty's Government who is the Departmental Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department of Health; and (a) when they were appointed and for how long, (b) what is their academic or experience background, (c) what is their civil service rank, (d) whether their post is full-time or part-time, and what other work commitments they have, and (e) on how many occasions during the past year they have had meetings with the Secretary of State for Health or the Minister to whom they have direct responsibility.

Earl Howe: The Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department of Health is Professor Dame Sally C Davies.
	Dame Sally was appointed to the post of Director General for Research and Development and Chief Scientific Adviser in 2004. The Chief Scientific Adviser role is not a fixed term appointment.
	Dame Sally was appointed Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government on 1 March 2011 and remains Chief Scientific Adviser and responsible for Research and Development.
	Dame Sally's qualifications (with year of achievement) are listed below:
	1972 MB, ChB (Manchester)
	1978 MRCP (UK)
	1981 MSc (London) (Immunology, with distinction) 1982 MRCPath
	1983 JCHMT Accreditation in Haematology 1992 FRCP
	1997 FRCPath
	1997 FRCPCh
	1999 FFPH
	2002 FMedSci
	Dame Sally is a full time civil servant and has the Civil Service rank of Permanent Secretary (as Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government).
	Dame Sally meets with Ministers and the Secretary of State on a weekly, if not daily, basis.

Health and Social Care Bill

Lord Touhig: To ask Her Majesty's Government why the Prime Minister announced changes to the Health and Social Care Bill in a speech before the National Health Service Future Forum report was presented either to Parliament or to the Cabinet.

Earl Howe: The Prime Minister's speech of 7 June drew from both his own experiences listening to staff patients and stakeholders, and the public statements made by future forum leads during the listening exercise.

Health: HIV

Lord Colwyn: To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 24 May (WA 410), in the light of the number of clinicians currently prevented from working, when they will publish the timetable for consideration and implementation of the recommendations of the Tripartite Working Group report on the management of HIV-infected healthcare workers, received on 20 April.

Earl Howe: We will consider the next steps in handling the recommendations of the Tripartite Group on the management of HIV-infected healthcare workers once we have received advice from officials and considered the report in detail. We anticipate receiving that advice during the summer.

Health: Liver Disease

Baroness Randerson: To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that standardised national and local prevalence and incidence data on Hepatitis C are collected and published each year once the Health Protection Agency is disbanded.

Earl Howe: The White Paper Healthy Lives, Healthy People, set out that Public Health England will be responsible for information and intelligence for public health, taking on the existing functions of public health observatories, specialist observatories and cancer registries, alongside relevant current functions of the Health Protection Agency (HPA), (subject to agreement by Parliament).
	In Healthy Lives, Healthy People, Consultation on the Funding and Commissioning Routes for Public Health, we set out that the prevention and control of infectious disease, including surveillance, would be one of the key functions of Public Health England, which is currently exercised by the HPA.

Health: Nutrition

The Countess of Mar: To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the publication of the new quality standards in the NHS Operating Framework 2011-12 published on 20 December 2010, what is the timetable for the development of standards for (a) nutrition in hospital, including for young people, (b) intravenous fluid therapy in hospitalised adult patients, and (c) pressure ulcers.

Earl Howe: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been commissioned to prepare quality standards for nutrition in hospital, including young people; intravenous fluid therapy in hospitalised adult patients; and pressure ulcers, during the period 2011-12.
	NICE provides progress updates on its quality standard programme on its website: www.nice.org.uk/aboutnice/qualitystandards/qualitystandards.jsp.

Health: Prescriptions

Baroness McDonagh: To ask Her Majesty's Government what incentives they are exploring to ensure that healthcare workers, pharmacists and front-line staff in chemists actively promote pre-payment certificates to increase uptake and the number of people benefiting from the scheme.
	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have applied to the prescription pre-payment certificate scheme in each of the past three years; and how many people the Government expect to join this scheme as a result of their plans to promote pre-payment certificates.
	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much the prescription pre-payment scheme costs to administer and promote.
	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are exploring how technology could be utilised to ensure that people who need to buy multiple prescriptions do not pay more than they would under the prescription pre-payment scheme.

Earl Howe: The department produces free leaflets and posters providing information about all the help with healthcare costs including prescription pre-payment certificates (PPCs) for display in surgeries, pharmacies and hospitals. These can be ordered by phoning 0845 610 1112. We are aware that technological solutions may have some attractions but there are affordability and feasibility issues.
	The administering of PPCs, medical exemption certificates and maternity exemption certificates is a single process carried out by the NHS Business Services Authority. It is not, therefore, possible to provide a separate cost for administering and promoting PPCs.
	The following table shows how many applications for a PPC have been received in each of the past six years. A person may submit more than one application in a year. We have made no forecast of the number of applications expected to be received in future years.
	
		
			 PPCs issued or purchased (England) 
			  Duration of certificates 
			 Financial Year 3-month 4-month 12-month Total 
			 2005-06  638,413 524,232 1,162,645 
			 2006-07  650,782 520,449 1,171,231 
			 2007-081 474,570 176,503 593,507 1,244,580 
			 2008-09 730,592  652,870 1,383,462 
			 2009-10 714,594  662,588 1,377,182 
			 2010-11 689,434  701,164 1,390,598 
		
	
	Source: NHS Help with Health Costs (HwHC) PPC database
	1 3 Month PPCs and Direct Debit payments were introduced in July 2007.

Homelessness: Statistics

Lord German: To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Hanham on 23 May (WA 382), what action they are taking to ensure that homelessness statistics take full account of homeless people who migrate between friends and family, staying only for short periods of time in one place.

Baroness Hanham: The department has no plans to collect further information on homeless people staying with friends and family.
	DCLG measures homelessness primarily through local authority statistics on the numbers of households who seek housing assistance and have their circumstances considered under the homelessness legislation, and secondly, through counts and estimates of rough sleeping. Details were provided in the Written Answer on 23 May, (Official Report, col. WA 382-83). These are the most robust and consistent measures of the problem, and of changes over time. The department also collects information on local authorities' actions to prevent and relieve homelessness and conducts regular surveys to measure other indicators of housing need. For example, the annual Survey of English Housing measures overcrowding, concealed and sharing households.
	The department does not feel that collecting statistics that take full account of people who move between friends and family, staying only for short periods of time in one place would be feasible, given the difficulty of tracking this transient group. Attempts to collect such data would be costly and may not yield robust figures which add value to the statistics that the department already collects.

Local Authorities: Governance

Lord Rooker: To ask Her Majesty's Government what guidance they offer to local authorities about good governance arrangements, in particular about the distribution of scrutiny committee chairs between the political parties; and what evidence they have that their guidance is adhered to.

Baroness Hanham: The statutory guidance, New Council Constitutions for English Authorities published under the Local Government Act 2000 in 2007 states:
	"Where there is a majority group, local authorities might consider it appropriate to have all or some of their overview and scrutiny committees chaired by members outside the majority group or by church or parent governor representatives".
	The guidance does not require local authorities to allocate scrutiny chairs to members outside the majority group and DCLG does not collect data on those that choose to do so.

Mexico

Lord Kennedy of Southwark: To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations have they made to the Government of Mexico regarding the cases of Valentina Rosendo Cantu and Ines Fernandez Ortega.

Lord Howell of Guildford: We have regular discussions with the Mexican authorities about threats against human rights defenders. We are monitoring progress of both these cases. Officials from our embassy in Mexico City and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London have met with Valentina Rosendo Cantá and we have discussed the case of Inés Fernández Ortega with representatives from human rights groups. We will continue to raise human rights issues with the Government of Mexico.

NHS Blood and Transplant

Baroness Randerson: To ask Her Majesty's Government what financial contribution each of the devolved Administrations has made towards the total funding of the National Health Service Blood and Transplant Authority in each of the past three financial years.

Earl Howe: The information is shown in the following table.
	
		
			 NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT)-Funding received from Devolved Administrations for each of the last three financial years 
			 Devolved Administrations 2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 
			 Scottish Government £2,680,000 £2,674,764 £991,500 
			 Welsh Assembly Government £2,064,650 £593,280 £577,400 
			 Northern Ireland Executive £726,612 £715,872 £293,800 
			 Total £5,471,262 £3,983,916 £1,862,700 
		
	
	Note: contributions are in support of organ donation and transplantation services provided by NHSBT across the United Kingdom.
	Source: NHS Blood and Transplant

NHS: Competition

Lord Touhig: To ask Her Majesty's Government following the Prime Minister's speech of 7 June, what role they now envisage competition will play in the reforms of the National Health Service.
	To ask Her Majesty's Government what criteria they will apply when determining whether or not the introduction of competition will improve patient care.

Earl Howe: We have set out our position in the response to the report of the NHS Future Forum, which we published on 14 June. In line with the forum's recommendations, our response makes clear that the role of competition in the National Health Service must be as a means to improving services for patients, never an end in itself.
	We will maintain our commitments to giving patients more choice and control over their care, again as the forum has recommended.
	The department will publish advice to the NHS on extending patient choice, based on what we have heard through our engagement with patients, clinical experts and NHS commissioners.
	However, as now, it would be for commissioners-not Government-to decide when and how to use competition in improving services. We will retain the existing framework of Principles and Rules for Co-operation and Competition to ensure that these decisions are transparent, non-discriminatory and in the interests of patients.
	A copy of Government Changes in Response to the NHS Future Forum has already been placed in the Library.

NHS: Pre-registration Training

Baroness Emerton: To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 5 May (WA 169-70), whether they can now provide the outturn commissioning figures for 2010-11 and detailed plan commissioning figures for 2011-12, due to be available by the end of May 2011.

Earl Howe: The outturn commissions reported by strategic health authorities (SHAs), for pre-registration courses in 2010-11, are shown in the following table:
	
		
			   2010-11 actual commissions 
			   NHS North East NHS North West NHS Yorkshire and the Humber NHS East Midlands NHS West Midlands NHS East of England NHS London NHS South East Coast NHS South Central NHS South West England 
			 Nursing 
			  degree 320 1,835 815 277 694 560 937 392 283 644 6,757 
			  diploma 727 1,595 1,335 1,308 1,827 1,170 2,751 911 859 852 13,335 
			  subtotal 1,047 3,430 2,150 1,585 2,521 1,730 3,688 1,303 1,142 1,496 20,092 
			 Midwifery 
			  degree 65 221 224 146 241 253 388 165 174 157 2,034 
			  18 month diploma 25 12 31 24 54 31 187 54 24 12 454 
			  subtotal 90 233 255 170 295 284 575 219 198 169 2,488 
			 Nursing and midwifery total (including 18 month diploma)  1,137 3,663 2,405 1,755 2,816 2,014 4,263 1,522 1,340 1,665 22,580 
		
	
	Source: SHA MPET FIMS returns
	The 2011-12 planned commission figures are based on SHA plans which they reassess throughout the year. The indicative commissioning figures for pre-registration courses in 2011-12, are shown in the following table:
	
		
			  2011-12 planned commissions 
			   NHS North East NHS North West NHS. Yorkshire and the Humber NHS East Midlands NHS West Midlands NHS East of England NHS London NHS South East Coast NHS South Central NHS South West England 
			 Nursing 
			  degree 601 2,649 1,269 363 2,102 1,268 3,115 871 639 1,099 13,976 
			  diploma 399 433 579 1,099 0 268 286 298 469 262 4,093 
			  subtotal 1,000 3,082 1,848 1,462 2,102 1,536 3,401 1,169 1,108 1,361 18,069 
			 Midwifery 
			  degree 64 206 237 132 294 238 433 165 183 158 2,110 
			  18 month diploma 26 42 22 33 0 36 155 57 26 0 397 
			  subtotal 90 248 259 165 294 274 588 222 209 158 2,507 
			 Nursing and midwifery total (including 18 month diploma)  1,090 3,330 2,107 1,627 2,396 1,810 3,989 1,391 1,317 1,519 20,576 
			 Physiotherapy  116 216 168 146 203 124 261 78 77 135 1,524 
			 Radiography (diagnostic)  47 171 116 62 118 84 189 83 83 118 1,071 
			 Radiography (therapeutic)  0 43 41 28 32 42 91 22 41 42 382 
			 Dietetics  0 38 56 34 41 30 80 38 0 35 352 
			 Speech and language therapy  50 92 66 69 70 65 206 26 38 38 720 
			 Occupational therapy  112 243 151 205 167 157 239 156 90 135 1,655 
			 Operating department practice  50 106 114 74 97 92 44 64 46 88 775 
			 Prosthetics and orthotics  0 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 
		
	
	Source: SHA MPET FIMS returns

NHS: Volunteers

The Earl of Sandwich: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will promote the good practice of volunteers, in and outside the National Health Service, who care for victims of prescribed drug addiction nationwide, and advertise their services.

Earl Howe: The department's strategic vision for volunteering in health and social care, due to be published shortly, will highlight the value and huge contribution volunteers bring to services, particularly in providing peer and culturally appropriate care and support. The forthcoming vision will seek to create an environment that promotes and encourages volunteering and social action in all aspects of health and care, both in the National Health Service and in the wide range of community and care services.
	The Vision for Volunteering will build on the measures announced in the recent giving White Paper, that will make giving, including giving time and resources, both easier and more attractive to a wider section of society. It will seek to influence commissioners of health and care services in adopting a holistic approach to volunteers, and will encourage greater use of partnerships to build community capacity.
	An important outcome from the Vision will be greater opportunities for shared learning and promoting good practice in supporting volunteering. We are working with volunteer involving organisations, both in the voluntary and public sectors, and the sector skills councils, to determine practical ways in which this can be taken forward.
	Individual agencies will determine how they advertise and promote volunteering opportunities. We are seeking to make this easier for both the volunteer and the organisation by improving the infrastructure and increasing the use of social media through organisations such as Do-It.

Northern Ireland: Recognition Payments

Lord Laird: To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their policy on the taxation and liability to national insurance contributions of recognition payments to former part-time Royal Irish Regiment soldiers and former full-time officers in the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and why they are considering different tax exemption arrangements in relation to former part-time RUC reserve officers' recognition payments.

Lord Sassoon: Under current legislation, the recognition payments being made to former part-time Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) reserve officers are liable to income tax and, in some circumstances, to national insurance contributions, as earnings derived from employment. They will be subject to the operation of Pay As You Earn in the normal way.
	Payments to RUC officers under the Patten reforms were paid for different reasons and were consequently of a different taxable nature.

Patrick Finucane

Lord Empey: To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will announce their decision on the future of the Pat Finucane case.

Lord Shutt of Greetland: The Government will announce their decision soon.

Philip Machemedze

Lord Maginnis of Drumglass: To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to refer Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organisation operative Philip Machemedze, who has admitted kidnapping and torture, and is now resident in Wales, to the International Criminal Court for his crimes against humanity.

Lord Howell of Guildford: Zimbabwe is not a party to the Rome Statute so the International Criminal Court (ICC) has no jurisdiction over events which have taken place in that country. For the ICC's Prosecutor to initiate an investigation in these circumstances would require either a referral by the United Nations Security Council, or the acceptance of ICC jurisdiction by the Government of Zimbabwe.

Planning: Green Belt

Lord Burnett: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they propose to review the boundaries of the green belts; and, if so, when.

Baroness Hanham: I refer the noble Lord to the Answer given by the Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to Mr Zac Goldsmith MP on 17 January 2011 (Official Report, col. 500-501W).

Public Expenditure

Lord Pearson of Rannoch: To ask Her Majesty's Government what are their proposed cuts in public expenditure in the current and subsequent four years.
	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the cuts they intend to make to public expenditure will be structured as a reduction in its growth; and, if so, what reductions they foresee over the next five years.

Lord Sassoon: Table 1.1 of the 2011 Budget (HC 836) shows the total reductions in spending over the next five years. The spending plans reflect cuts in annually managed expenditure, as shown in table 2.1 of the Budget, and plans for Departmental Expenditure Limits, shown in table 2.4 of the Budget.

Schools: CCTV

Lord Lester of Herne Hill: To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they gave to requiring parental consent to the use of CCTV in schools to be provided for in the Protection of Freedoms Bill.

Lord Hill of Oareford: Schools and colleges must adhere to the requirements in the Data Protection Act 1998 when using CCTV on their premises. The Government trusts head teachers to consult parents on this issue where it is appropriate to do so but does not consider that it is necessary to require parental consent for its use in a school or college.
	The Protection of Freedoms Bill makes provision for a Code of Practice containing guidance about the use of CCTV and other surveillance camera systems. The police, police and crime commissioners, and local authorities will be under a duty to have regard to the code and there is an order-making power which will enable this duty to be extended to other operators if required. Where operators of CCTV systems, such as schools, are not bound by the duty to have regard to the Code, we expect them to do so on a voluntary basis.
	The Government are currently considering responses to a public consultation over the development of the code.

Telephone Hacking

Lord Pearson of Rannoch: To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of phone hacking and other illegal intrusion into privacy which may have been carried out by media organisations other than the News of the World newspaper.

Baroness Rawlings: There are a number of investigations looking at the issue of phone hacking, and we will be looking closely at the results. In the mean time, any further government action at the moment risks impeding those inquiries.

Terrorism

Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will review their financial and technical assistance for anti-terrorism activities by Governments in East Africa, to assess whether these activities exacerbate the grievances of Muslim communities.

Lord Howell of Guildford: There are currently no new plans to review financial and technical assistance for anti-terrorism activities by Governments in East Africa. However, all UK Government financial and technical assistance for anti-terrorism activity is subject to scrutiny by a cross Whitehall board with inputs from policy leads and research analysts as appropriate and are subject to monitoring and evaluation. Financial and technical assistance are regularly monitored and evaluated, potential risks are highlighted and ways we can mitigate them identified, these include whether they could exacerbate grievances.
	We work to ensure all projects are tightly focused and provide value for money, in reducing the threat to the UK and its interests but the UK Government also seek to ensure that we do not fund anti-terrorism activities that might exacerbate the grievances of Muslim communities.